The Royal Commission on the House of Lords is chaired by Lord Wakeham, a former Tory minister.
But Lord Wakeham has got the composition of his reformed chamber wrong.
Preferably, these will include more elected peers than envisaged by Lord Wakeham.
Lord Wakeham launched his attack on the plans as the House of Lords began to debate the issue fully for the first time.
And, in January, Mr Blair received a blueprint for this second stage from a royal commission under Lord Wakeham, a former Tory cabinet minister.
Lord Wakeham, a former Tory chief whip and noted political fixer, has suggested that the Convention's privacy provisions should apply only to public bodies.
Wakeham's party, the Conservatives, have said Tony Blair's party had strong ties with Enron and has even stronger ties with its accounting firm, Andersen.
Wakeham was drawn into the controversy earlier this week when he faced a call from the Liberal Democrats to stand aside from the PCC.
Bill Wakeham, the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, is encouraged by the changes, and believes the collaborative model can only become more relevant in the future.
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Wakeham's commission handles complaints about media intrusion and invasions of privacy.
John Wakeham was Britain's Energy Secretary for three years from 1989.
The government has broadly followed the conservative recommendation of the royal commission Mr Blair set up in 1999 under a former Conservative cabinet minister, Lord Wakeham.
Conservative peer Lord Wakeham, who headed the Royal Commission that investigated the issue for the government, has attacked ministers for departing from his recommendations in several important areas.
Lord Wakeham argues that even a largely appointed upper house could acquire the authority and independence it needs in order to provide a stronger check on the Commons.
Wakeham, 69, chairman of Britain's Press Complaints Commission and a former Conservative energy minister, said the move was temporary while U.S. investigators looked into his links to Enron.
MPs favour Lord Wakeham's proposal for an upper house of great and good people, nominated by a committee of the same, with at most a third of its members elected.
Within days, the head of Britain's press watchdog, Conservative ex-minister Lord Wakeham, stepped aside to answer questions about his links with the company, for which he was a non-executive director.
Lord Wakeham, knowing this, has presumably succumbed to the pragmatic argument that Mr Blair would never accept an elected upper house because of the way it would curb his own power.
Ten years on, Lord Wakeham says the commission has raised standards of reporting and protected the vulnerable, resolving complaints more quickly than the courts could, at no cost to the complainants.
Lord Wakeham claims that self-regulation is already working.
"An ageing population, recent legislative changes, lower interest rates and low investment returns, an increased tax burden and the government's ongoing pensions reform programme are factors that affect all employees and employers, " said Professor Bill Wakeham, chairman of the employers' Pensions Forum .
And although Lord Wakeham has a reputation as a fixer rather than a radical, his first consultation paper, published last week, surprised some constitution-watchers by posing more searching questions than expected such as whether there is a case, not broached in the white paper, for giving the upper house extra powers as a constitutional watchdog.
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